The Sorting Hat

Overview

The Sorting Hat was created within 48 hours by a 9-person ad-hoc team. It does everything in the Harry Potter movie ought to, except read the wearer’s mind. By integrating IBM Watson, Natural Language Classifier (NCL), Raspberry Pi 2B+ project board, Adruinos, YUN, servos, LEDs, microphones, speaker, batteries and speech-to-text/text-to-speech services, the hat is able to digest the wearer's characteristics via voice input, and sorts the wearer into the most appropriate house they belongs to.

With the help of storyboarding, character enhancements with proper combination of audio and facial expressions, and visual feedback, various stages of the hat-wearing experience were humanized within given hardware constraints. Out of 32 final entries, Sorting Hat won the "Defense Against The Dark Arts Award".

My Role

Storyboarding

Character Design

Presentation Slides

Poster

The Story

The Sorting Hat made its appearance on the first day of Hogwarts new school year, each new student must wear it to determine which of the four school Houses they should go to.